McCaughey: "The Constitution is on Trump’s side"
The Biden-Trump contest was held under a set of rules foisted on an unknowing public and likely to tilt the election, writes former lieutenant governor of New York Betsy McCaughey.
The Biden-Trump contest was held under a set of rules foisted on an unknowing public and likely to tilt the election, writes former lieutenant governor of New York Betsy McCaughey.
McCaughey writing in the New York Post has says Americans should not accept the 'bald-faced lie' that election turmoil is normal:
The post-election limbo is a deliberate creation of the Democratic Party. In the months leading up to the election, the Democratic National Committee and allied groups blanketed swing states with armies of lawyers filing suits to challenge voter ID laws, signature verification laws and, more than anything else, deadlines for mail-in ballots — as if elections should no longer have deadlines but instead be staged as a rolling, never-ending process.
The pretext for all these changes was the pandemic. But the fact is, this nation has elected presidents in a timely way during world wars, polio epidemics and many other emergencies without doing away with Election Day finality.
In what seemed to be a coordinated effort, the media told Americans not to expect a winner on election night. If President Trump is ahead on Nov. 3, we were told, it’s just a “red mirage” that will be clawed back and undone once all the mail-in and late-arriving ballots are counted. CNN stopped talking about Election Day and switched to “election season.”
Mid-morning on Nov. 4, Trump vowed to seek a Supreme Court ruling on which ballots are being counted. When he said it, the left erupted in outrage. Rep. Adam Schiff said the president was acting like “a would-be despot.” That’s a hoot. Despots trash the rule of law — Trump is appealing to it.
The Constitution is on Trump’s side. The Constitution states — not once but twice — that state legislatures decide “the time, place and manner of elections.” Governors, commissions and local judges have no authority to go around state lawmakers.
In other surprising election news Donald Trump did far better with ethnic and religious minorities than any other Republican since 1960; the only demographic that Trump lost ground with was white men and that is likely to cost him re-election.
Trump has been maligned as a racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic white supremacist since he announced he was running for president in 2015.
So, how did he secure the largest non-white vote of any Republican presidential candidate in 60 years?